Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-07-14
THE NEWS.

Asa G. Payne died at Burgin Station. KY,
in his one hundreth year.
Slight shocks of earthquake were felt in
lower South Carolina, Sunday.
The New York city directory, just issued.
indicates population of 1,60O,OO
The city council of Columbus, Ohio, de-
feaied the ordinance closing saloons at mid
night.
A number of the Salvation Army were ar !
rested at Lafayette, Ind, for disturbing the
peace.
General Walter G. Whitaker died at Lyn-
don, KY, Saturday night, aged sixty-four
years.
Rome, Ga, city of twelve thousand pop
ulation has voted for prohibition by $50 ma
jority.
Two children Of David Jones, near Chsun-
cy, Ohio, were killed'by lightning as they sat
by the fireplace.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
test the validity of the lease of the Vsndalis
line By the Ives Bros
The new Methodist church at jamestown,
Ind, was struck by lightning and burned to
the ground on Sunday.
The Grant monument fund being raised
under the auspices of the New York Star
amounts to over $1,000.
The o. S. Pacific quadron has been ordered
to Honolulu, and the Asiatic squadron will be
sent if events warrant it.
Hong Di, who was Saturday found guilty,
at Coluss, Cal, of murder of Mrs. Billiyou,
was taken from Jail and lynched.
James Fl. Deval, formerly of GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, was murdered and robbed of large
sum of money by brigands, in Mexico.
1t has been discovered that $4,000 worth
of whisky has been stolen from the %. F. G.
and Carlisle distillery warehouses at Frank
fort, KY.
sumption among the Chinese in New York.
The disease is said to be the result of too
| light diet.
An Objectionable saloon at Spring Hills, o.,
run by Mcdonald & Carver, was destroyed
by incendiary fire. The owners started up in
another building.
Herbert Taylor, of Worcester, Mass, is the
young man who personated Walker Blaine in
J Montreal and indulged in various swindling
Operations last week.
John II. Shropshire, a farmer living Hear
Georgetown, Ky, fell from the seat of his
mower and was so badly mangled that death
is expected to follow.
1t is probable that a new Archiepiscopal
See will be erected in this country, at De-
troit, with Bishop Chstard, now of tine Vim
cennes Qnd.) Diocese, in charge.
Hon. Duncan Dow, of; :;Bellefonteine, Ohio.
from whom the Dow law gets its name, is
among those mentioned for Attorney Cen
eral on the Republican state ticket.
The four G. A R. posts of Utica, N. Y,
have withdrawn their acceptance Of invita>
tions to attend the Clinton On. Y. centennial
on account of the presence of Cleveland.
One hundred and two seamen and marines,
Of the T.. 5. flagship Trenton, living at the
Norfolk Navy Vary, deserted. Poor accom-
modations is the reason for the disaffecLion.
Edward O'Connor, a Pittsburgh saloon>
keeper, had his skull crushed with Ratchet
by Michael Moran, for insisting on closing
his saloon before Moran was ready to leave.
The sloop Mystery, with thirty seven Sum
day excursionists on board, was struck by a
squall and capsized off Barren Island. Only
ten of the party are known to have been
saved.
Up to latest report thirty three lives were
lost by the capsizing of the sloop Mystery, on
Barren Island, Sunday evening. Thirteen
bodies have been recovered, eleven from the
sloOps cabin.
Adam Freeman (coIored), who died in the
Alabama penitentiary, confessed just before
death that he set fire 10 house on Sand
Mountain, in August, 1854, for which crime
three men were hanged.
A vuIcanizer, ander 180 pounds pressure to
the inch, burst in the dental Office of DR.. Hol-
brook, Mt Vernon, Ohio, doing much dams
age to the room and seriously Injuring an ap-
prentice named Marcellus Walters.
], NJ. Kerr, editor Of the Jessamine Journ>
al, at Nicholasville, Ky, has his paper for
sale. with the purpose Of quitting the place
because the council has forbidden him using
steam power in the office. Ali Democrats.
August Sippelius has been severely cen>
sured by Philadelphia jury for selling reefs
pes containing chromate of lead, and AsheD-
back 81 Miller and Geo. w. Millet for furnish.
ing the substance TO bakers for use according
to the recipes.
A few citizens of st. Louis, desirous of
showing the President the love they have for
-